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College Was Awesome. Now What?
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College graduation marks the start of a career with new responsibilities and decisions. It can be an exciting time but filled with uncertainty. If you are starting a job, it is time to begin planning your financial future. To get started, here are our best tips around budgeting and spending money wisely, checking your credit score, saving for retirement, understanding your company’s benefits, monitoring and protecting your online activity (both financials and social posts), building your business skills, and more.

College Planning 101: How to Get Ready as a Family
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Going to college is a major milestone—and for many members of the sandwich generation, it’s important to know how to get ready for that big moment, both from a financial and emotional perspective. Learn more about the College Planning topic in this episode of Invested: Advancing Women in Work and Wealth.

2025 FOX Foresight: Leaning into Learning: Four Top Practices of Enterprise Families
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The Five Capitals, Wealth 3.0, and the prevalence of Chief Learning Officers in family offices underscore a growing recognition among UHNW families of the value of investing in their human capital. Cultivating skills, stewardship, and personal growth is foundational for a legacy led by an educated, empowered family collective. We explore why learning is essential, how leading families are approaching it, and how you can initiate this journey.

Cultivating Future Family Leaders | 2024 FOX Family Office & Wealth Advisor Forum
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Through a collaboration with a family office and outside partners, hear one family’s approach to encouraging the rising generation to find their voice in the family enterprise. Learn from a Family Office COO how to design and steward a rising generation program with family input and the support of external consultants. Together, the group discusses their work with the family, the elements that worked well, the foundation for building a successful rising generation program, and developing and cultivating future family leaders.

Who Am I and Where Do I Fit? The Dilemma of the Rising Generation
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Join FOX for a lively discussion addressing the roles and obstacles of the rising generation, with author and innovator in financial education and well-being for families, Joline Godfrey, and FOX’s Director, Relationship Manager, Heather Abramson. We will highlight vexing obstacles the rising gen faces, the possibilities for claiming one’s roles and place in the family, and strategies that can be employed to claim identity and roles, inside and outside the family.

Amplifying Rising Gen Voices: Translating Challenges into Opportunities | 2023 FOX Family Forum
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In April of 2023, FOX released the Rising Gen Research Brief, the findings from rising gen focus groups, and a survey, conducted in 2022. This session will dive into the data through the lens of our rising gen panelists. We will learn how they experience, work through, and address the rising gen challenges in their lives and families. By discussing common challenges and goals of this segment, we will understand how to better serve this group, and leave with ideas for how other families have turned challenges into opportunities.

Navigating Financial Readiness for the Rising Gen | 2023 FOX Family Forum
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Whether it’s a conversation about money, the role of the beneficiary, what it means to be wealthy, or clarifying values and purpose, families often delay important discussions with kids out of fear, or the rationale they are not ready. Like so many things in life, helping children develop readiness is how we prepare them for the future. With early education and age-appropriate learning they get a head start that allows them to incrementally adapt to their unique future, with abundant resources and options.

Redefining Success: Placing Flourishing First in the Family Wealth Industry
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In moving past the “shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations” adage, advisors in the family wealth space are emphasizing the importance of the family’s qualitative capitals that go beyond serving only the financial capital goals. This shift has elevated the family client experience and expectations. It’s part of the Wealth 3.0 movement that brings with it a refocus on the different goals of various family types, the importance of qualitative capitals, the evolution of family governance, and the human capital of legacy families and the rising generation.

2023 Rising Gen Research Brief
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This research brief uses direct feedback from members of the rising gen to identify their top concerns and shed new insights into the important goals they have with their family. With the data and recommendations gathered, you can learn more about the group—including the challenges and pressures they face—to create a roadmap that leads to productive family engagement and communications, action planning, and problem-solving.